Name: The Lark Ascending
Start: 2025-03-09T15:00:00
Location: Cadogan Hall

Dive into the harmonious celebration of English music as the English Chamber Orchestra marks its 65th anniversary. With captivating performances at London's Cadogan Hall and Cambridge's Trinity Chapel, to a mesmerizing evening at the Newbury Spring Festival in Germany, these events celebrate the richness of orchestral music. Experience the genius of artists like Nimrod Borenstein, Harriet Mackenzie, and Emanuil Ivanov, as they bring to life compositions from Vaughan Williams, Vivaldi, Bach, and Chopin. This series of concerts promises a journey through time, seasons, and cultures with the universal language of music.

A Symphony of Seasons: Celebrating the English Chamber Orchestra

Join the English Chamber Orchestra as it embarks on a series of unforgettable performances celebrating its 65th anniversary. Featuring a rich tapestry of English music, timeless Baroque masterpieces, and the brilliance of emerging talents, these events highlight the orchestra's enduring commitment to musical excellence. From the evocative strains of 'The Lark Ascending' at Cadogan Hall to Vivaldi's vivid 'Four Seasons' at Trinity Chapel, and a stirring piano concerto at the Newbury Spring Festival, each concert promises a unique blend of tradition and innovation.

English Chamber Orchestra Celebrates Milestones: A Symphony of Timeless Classics

Step into the world of orchestral mastery with three remarkable events that bring together the essence of English music, the brilliance of Baroque masterpieces, and the grandeur of celebrated piano concertos. Join us as we explore 'The Lark Ascending' at Cadogan Hall, the intimate 'Four Seasons' at Trinity Chapel Cambridge, and the captivating Newbury Spring Festival. Each event offers a unique musical experience, featuring talented performers and timeless compositions that promise to resonate with audiences long after the final note fades.

A Journey Through Sound: Celebrating English Music and Beyond

Cadogan Hall in London is set to host a spectacular array of musical events in early 2025, bringing together world-renowned musicians and orchestras. From Johan Dalene's anticipated performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto to the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra's youthful spirit, and Chris de Burgh's timeless hits, this season promises an unforgettable musical journey. Highlighting diverse genres and legendary compositions, Cadogan Hall remains a pivotal stage for both classical masterpieces and modern storytelling.

A Symphony of Culture: Cadogan Hall's Stellar Line-up for 2025

Embark on a musical journey with the English Chamber Orchestra as it celebrates English music through three captivating events. From the evocative 'The Lark Ascending' at London's Cadogan Hall, to the vivid portrayal of 'The Four Seasons' at Trinity Chapel, Cambridge, and the profound depth of Chopin's Piano Concerto at Newbury Spring Festival, each event brings together outstanding performers and timeless compositions. Delight in the symphony of sounds and explore the cultural significance of these masterpieces in the world of orchestral music.

Celebrating English Music: A Journey Through Orchestral Masterpieces

Cadogan Hall invites you to a series of captivating performances that span a variety of musical genres and themes. From the evocative melodies of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto to the vocal brilliance of Donizetti's forgotten songs, these events promise an unforgettable experience. With performances by renowned artists like Johan Dalene and Chris de Burgh, and the return of Ennio Morricone's celebrated scores, there is something for everyone. Join us in London as we celebrate the timeless beauty and power of music.

Cadogan Hall's Musical Extravaganza: A Journey Through Time and Sound

Nimrod Borenstein

John Mills

Sarah Fox

English Chamber Orchestra

Cadogan Hall

In celebration of performing together for over 30 years on stages across the world, Fisherman’s Friends are proud to announce their new UK tour dates for 2025 and 2026. Having sold out every venue on their last tour including the Royal Albert Hall, the band looks forward to performing old songs and new.

Fisherman’s Friends

Cadogan Hall 

Following the sell-out success of Beethoven’s Fifths, the world-famous Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performs another all-Beethoven programme, this time finding the composer in a more romantic frame of mind.

Written during Beethoven’s infatuation with his ‘Immortal Beloved’, the Fourth Piano Concerto flouts convention at virtually every turn. Tender and lyrical, it culminates in a jubilant finale that seems to suggest the composer, endlessly unlucky in matters of the heart, has discovered the joy of life itself.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Beethoven’s ‘Pastoral’

JS Bach’s Magnificat in D is one of the best-loved works in the choral repertoire. Taken from Luke’s gospel, the text is the Virgin Mary’s canticle celebrating her pregnancy with the promised Messiah. In his magnificent setting, Bach amplifies the voice of an ordinary young woman as she responds to the astounding news that she would give birth to the Son of God.

Mozart’s Litaniae Lauretanae, a devotional to Mary written when he was only fifteen, showcases energy and sensitive artistry, with dynamic mood shifts capturing both reverence and exuberance.

Bach: Magnificat in D

Beethoven didn’t have much time for tyrants. “If I understood war as well as I understand music, I would conquer him” was his verdict when Napoleon invaded Austria – and judging from the daring, the charisma and the sheer, elemental force of his ‘Eroica’ (Heroic) Symphony, he might have had a point.

The commitment and skill of Ukrainian musicians always receives a warm welcome here at Cadogan Hall, and tonight, one of Ukraine’s most-admired pianists takes the spotlight in the majestic ‘Emperor’ Concerto – music of unbreakable grandeur and defiance, and the perfect complement to the ‘Eroica’.

National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

This concert brings together two great romantic German composers, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

The works are both rousing and comforting in nature, and the much-loved Ein deutsches Requiem, which Brahms referred to as a ‘human requiem’, is written to console the living and to explore grief in its many forms, rather than to accompany the dead.

Volodymyr Sirenko

Direct from London’s world-famous jazz club and combining world-class live jazz, narration, rare archive photos and video footage, The Ronnie Scott’s All Stars take to the stage to celebrate The Ronnie Scott’s Story.

Set amongst the dive bars and jazz jook joints of London’s Soho, we hear about the desperate hand-to-mouth finances of the early years and the frequent police raids. We hear how Ronnie’s became neutral ground within rife gang territory and their scrapes with gangsters, including the Krays who were rumoured to have taken Ronnie Scott ‘for a little drive’!

Life at Ronnie’s is evocatively reimagined through tales of the club’s past visitors, from pop stars, film stars and politicians to comedians and royalty – but above all, the musicians.

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club: The Ronnie Scott’s Story

VOCES8, joined by composer-in-residence, Taylor Scott Davis, and choirs from across the United States, collaborate with Vox Anima London in this unique choral offering featuring well-known and recently-composed repertoire, under the direction of Barnaby Smith.

The concert opens with VOCES8 performing alongside the visiting ensembles and culminates with VOCES8’s solo set of beloved repertoire and a return of all performing forces to the stage for a stunning finale.

Vox Anima London

At the age of 22, Rachmaninov had his heart broken. He poured all his ambition and all his emotion into the epic score of his First Symphony, which goes off like a volcano – wild, passionate and positively brimming with inspiration. For many years it was lost, but today conductor Nil Venditti gives this youthful tour de force its due.

The Northampton-born composer Edmund Rubbra, meanwhile, was one of the most admired names in post-war British music, but today his radiant Piano Concerto – inspired by the flowers and moods of the English countryside – is a real rarity. Pianist Mark Bebbington has made it his mission to rediscover Britain’s lost masterworks, and this one’s a jewel. You might be about to discover your new favourite piece.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 1

Experience the enchanting world of Maestro Ennio Morricone, brought to life by Ensemble Symphony Orchestra and led by conductor Giacomo Loprieno.

Discovering Morricone pays an orchestral tribute to the renowned Italian composer, delving into his vast repertoire, from timeless classics to lesser-known yet beautifully captivating pieces.

More than a traditional concert, this musical journey will guide the audience through the decades that shaped the greatness of Italian and international cinema through the evocative power of Morricone’s iconic melodies, including classics like Once Upon a Time in the West, Cinema Paradiso, The Hateful Eight, and Malèna.

Discovering Morricone

Experience the beauty and drama of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, performed by candlelight by the acclaimed chamber ensemble London Concertante. From the icy winds of winter to the gentle bloom of spring, this iconic work remains one of the most evocative pieces of classical music ever written.

Alongside it, enjoy Vaughan Williams’ soaring masterpiece The Lark Ascending – a meditative, pastoral work that captures the stillness and poetry of the English landscape.

The Four Seasons & The Lark Ascending by Candelight

He’s too modest to admit it, but Sir John Rutter might just be the world’s best-loved living classical composer. Millions have sung his music, millions more have been touched by it: fresh, sincere and written with genuine love, it’s part of all our lives.

For the RPO, any chance to work with Sir John is a special occasion, and tonight’s concert is no exception as he conducts the UK premiere of Reflections, a brand new piano concerto which will be performed by British pianist Steven Osborne.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Sir John Rutter conducts Reflections

Streatham Choral and the Brandenburg Sinfonia bring the brilliance of Haydn’s The Creation to Cadogan Hall, directed by Calum Fraser.

Impressed and inspired by Handel’s great oratorios which he heard during visits to London, Haydn said, “I was struck as if I had been put back a hundred years in my art.”

The resulting 1798 masterpiece bursts with vivid orchestral colour, soaring choruses, and movements of awe and wonder, as it celebrates the dawn of light and life in the story of Genesis.

Haydn: The Creation

The English Chamber Orchestra marks its 65th anniversary with a programme celebrating English music which has been at the heart of its music-making for over 60 years.

The Lark Ascending

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